Evgenia PeretzEvgenia Peretz has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1999, covering a wide range of topics. She has written extensively about politics, with subjects including the Florida recount and the run-up to the war in Iraq. Her article about President Bush’s presence in Texas, “High Noon in Crawford,” appeared in The Best American Political Writing 2006. She has written about many looming figures in politics, media, and the arts, including Silvio Berlusconi, French president Francois Hollande, Al Gore, Sally Quinn, James Frey, and Donna Tartt. She has chronicled the ways of the very rich with pieces on St. Tropez, Pacific Heights, and the Plaza hotel; and has delved into eccentric subcultures, with stories about big wave surfing, the Kabbalah craze, the kids of rock stars, and Deep Springs College. She is also a screenwriter, and co-wrote the 2011 movie Our Idiot Brother, starring Paul Rudd.